International Volunteer Day Quotes & Sayings

It's nice to have one person who knows all your secrets — Chuck Palahniuk

Wait - what?" He'd said the last statement so casually, I almost didn't grasp its significance. "There are merrow who want to destroy the human race?" I pictured a hundred thousand Sebastians, capable of punching through picnic tables and moving faster than we could even see them. It would be a slaughter. A mermaid apocalypse. I almost laughed at the thought, but the impulse died in my throat. I felt sick. I couldn't believe I'd wanted to kiss him just a few moments ago. — D.S. Murphy

A new regulation for the publishing industry: The advance for a book must be larger than the check for the lunch at which it was discussed. — Calvin Trillin

Sorry to disappoint you, parents - but when your kids come out as gay, bi or transgender, it is not about you. — Christina Engela

Miracles appear to be required only when you try to take too large a step all at once. This is not to say that life is not an impressive phenomenon. But as is typical with impressive phenomena, it is impressive because it emerges gradually somewhere on a long continuum. — M..

Judges are but men, and are swayed like other men by vehement prejudices. This is corruption in reality, give it whatever other name you please. — David Dudley Field II

You ask me, and I'll tell you the truth - anything out of people's usual expectations throws them off track. — J.A. Redmerski

What God declares the believing heart confesses without the need of further proof. Indeed, to seek proof is to admit doubt, and to obtain proof is to render faith superfluous. Everyone who possesses the gift of faith will recognize the wisdom of those daring words of one of the early Church fathers: I believe that Christ died for me because it is incredible; I believe that He rose from the dead because it is impossible. — A.W. Tozer

Taking photographs is not something that happens only in a moment I press the button. It is a full-time occupation. For me there is difference between leisure and work. — Edouard Boubat

Fear is a prison. A feeling of crippling power that spreads darkness within. It blinds. It questions. It takes over every decision we make, coloring it with doubt. Fear, for most of us, rules our lives, and it's only when you conquer it that you can truly live your life to the fullest. — Mia Asher

On what he thinks about all day
Women. They are a complete mystery. — Stephen Hawking

The cause is hidden. The effect is visible to all. — Ovid

This galloping concentration in broadcast ownership is unhealthy. — Byron Dorgan

The truth about Chanel's bespoke femininity is that a woman can do or say whatever she wants as long as she's wearing pearls. — Karen Karbo

Everyone prefers belief to the exercise of judgement. — Seneca.